Israel secretly tried it in 2014, and of the estimated 4000 immigrants sent to Rwanda, only 41 now remain there, and they are far from content with their lot.
The rest, of course, used people smugglers to flee the country.
Come on now, say what you really think about the way we are all being taken for fools.
Not a comment on your situation in Britain, but wonder if you are familiar with the Australian tragedy that is Manus Island - not a blueprint for the treatment of refugees to be proud of.
ReplyDeleteHas Australia' harsh approach to immigration made it a better place to live and, if so, at what cost?
DeleteTom, it all makes me ill.
ReplyDeleteMe too. It is an international sickness.
DeleteWell even her civil servants are going into revolt. The rise of the Unions? What do I think? FFS why have we got such cruel, ignorant politicians in charge. Maybe, maybe, because they have such short terms in office and are already electioneering for the next bout of office. I will give them one thing though, the weight of the problems they face is enormous.
ReplyDeleteThe weight of their problems would test the best, but we do not have anything like the best. Since taking office, B.J.'s eye has not been on the ball but firmly fixed on his own career. He is everything a good politician should not be, and - so far - he has got away with lying to the house almost every time he opens his mouth.
DeleteWell even her civil servants are going into revolt. The rise of the Unions? What do I think? FFS why have we got such cruel, ignorant politicians in charge. Maybe, maybe, because they have such short terms in office and are already electioneering for the next bout of office. I will give them one thing though, the weight of the problems they face is enormous.
ReplyDeleteThe people smugglers know they are onto a good thing and know that compassion (which they do not have) means that they have saddled us with an intractable and almost unsolvable problem.
ReplyDeleteEuropean laws say that migrants should claim asylum in the first safe country they enter. Yet these asylum seekers have travelled through many safe countries to get to England. The Left says we are are a clapped out, finished country. Yet the rest of the world's dispossessed go through discomfort and hell to come here. Why?
European laws also allow for unrestricted freedom of movement within the E.U. which is something we opted out of if you remember. Under this freedom any single country cannot force an asylum seeker to remain in one country as we will if we send people fleeing from the hell and discomfort you describe to Rwanda and - in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury - sub-contract out our duty of care to a regime which cares for nothing but the money it will bring them.
DeleteCan you imagine how much worse it would be for bordering countries like Poland to house every single Ukrainian fleeing the war (they already have millions) or small ports like Trieste being forced to accommodate the migrants from Africa or the Middle East by law?
I don't recall any from the Left saying that Britain is a clapped out, finished country but I do hear a lot of politicians from both sides of the House saying that our rogue Prime Minister is turning it into one.
Of course we are but then isn't that almost always the case?
ReplyDeleteMore so now than ever before I think.
DeleteIt was an interesting choice when they selected Jacob Rees-Mogg to counteract the head of the Anglican Church's attack on the latest un-Christian behaviour toward its fellow man in forcibly deporting 'illegal' asylum seekers to Rwanda for 'processing'. He was probably the safest choice amongst the H.M. The Queen - Defender of the Faith - and her government. HRH Charles is reputed to veer toward the Orthodox Church, and the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church has recently declared that God is on Putin's side.
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